中美父母批评策略的优选论分析

An OT Account of Chinese and American Parental Criticism Strategies

文章以优选论的理论为基本框架,以语用学中的礼貌原则为制约条件,分析了中美父母批评策略这一言语行为,从而对比了中美父母批评策略在具体使用中的异同。对比显示,中美父母在实行批评言语行为时,其制约条件排列次序有所不同,因此反映出中美父母教育方式的不同以及中美文化的差异。

The paper makes a comparison between Chinese and American parental criticism strategies under the framework of politeness principle and optimality theory.It proves that the hierarchical rankings of constraints of these two languages are different,which manifests the different teaching methods used by Chinese and Ameirican parents,and the cultural differences betweena China and America.